Due to the strong inroads that Western scientism and Western Christianity have made in Africa as a result of colonialism, post-colonial African governments have tended to rely solely on Western scientific conservation epistemologies and models to the neglect of those of the Indigenous African...

This book is an anthology of essays contributing new scholarship to the contemporary discourse on the concept of aid. It provides an interdisciplinary investigation of the role of aid in African development, compiling the work of historians, political scientists, legal scholars, and economists...

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Chômage et conditions d'existence des jeunes de la ville de Ouagadougou -- 3. Familles en survie dans un espace défavorisé à Ouagadougou -- 4. Villes et créativité des enfants et des jeunes...

This book explores the relationship between plantation labour and gender in Africa. Such a study is the more opportune because most of the existing works on plantation labour in Africa seem to have either under-studied or even ignored the changing conceptions of gender on the continent in recent...

Intro -- POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF AFRICA. VOLUME 9 -- POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF AFRICA. VOLUME 9 -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Uganda: Current Conditions and the Crisis in North Uganda* -- Summary -- Recent Developments -- Uganda:...

This report on the broadcast media in Nigeria finds that liberalisation efforts in the broadcasting sector have only been partially achieved. More than a decade after military rule, the nation still has not managed to enact media legislation that is in line with continental standards,...

Cover -- Contents -- Acronyms -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Executive Summary -- Part One: Cooperatives on the African continent -- Chapter One - Cooperative Development in Africa up to the 1990s -- Chapter Two - Renaissance of African Cooperatives in the 21st Century: Lessons from the Field --...

The textile industry was one of the first manufacturing activities to become organized globally, as mechanized production in Europe used cotton from the various colonies. Africa, the least developed of the world's major regions, is now increasingly engaged in the production of this crop for the...

Front Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Executive Summary -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Development Challenge of Drylands in Sub-Saharan Africa -- The Africa Drylands Study -- Objectives of This Book on Agricultural Water Management --...